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Hipp, John R. – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
This study compares the relationship between official crime rates in census tracts and resident perceptions of crime. Using a unique data set that links household-level data from the American Housing Survey metro samples over 25 years (1976-1999) with official crime rate data for census tracts in selected cities during selected years, this study…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Crime, Surveys, Violence
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DeFina, Robert; Hannon, Lance – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
During the past 30 years, U.S. poverty has remained high despite overall economic growth. At the same time, incarceration rates have risen by more than 300%, a phenomenon that many analysts have referred to as mass incarceration. This article explores whether the mass incarceration of the past few decades impeded progress toward poverty reduction.…
Descriptors: Poverty, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Crime
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Espelage, Dorothy – AERA Open, 2015
School violence and bullying are two public health concerns with consequences for youth in and out of school, for families, students, and community members. In this article, a social-ecological framework is briefly described as a way to understand bullying and school violence; then the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) longitudinal…
Descriptors: Violence, Bullying, Educational Research, Statistical Data
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LeSage, Ann; Samis, John; Hinch, Ron; Longo, Fabiola; DiGiuseppe, Maurice; Goodman, William; Percival, Jennifer; De La Rocha, Arlene; Rodrigues, Anna; Raby, Phil; Sanchez, Otto – College Quarterly, 2014
This study evaluates the impact of a College to University Pathway Program in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at The University of Ontario Institute of Technology. The findings support the assertion that Pathway students perform as well as or better than students who enter university directly from secondary school. This finding is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Community Colleges, College Transfer Students
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Mullins, Christopher W.; Young, Joseph K. – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
Although uniquely positioned to provide insight into the nature and dynamics of terrorism, overall the field of criminology has seen few empirically focused analyses of this form of political violence. This article seeks to add to the understanding of terror through an exploration of how general levels of violence within a given society influence…
Descriptors: War, Homicide, Statistical Data, Law Enforcement
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Rabold, Susann; Baier, Dirk – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Ethnic differences in violent behavior can be found in official crime statistics, as well as in surveys on juvenile delinquency. To explain these differences, research mainly focuses on factors like parental violence, violence legitimizing norms of masculinity, or socio-economic status. Little research has examined the role of friendship network's…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Neighborhoods, Violence, Socioeconomic Status
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White, Michael D.; Klinger, David – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
Recent police shootings in which multiple officers fired numerous rounds at suspects have led some observers to assert that such situations involve "contagious fire," where an initial officer's shots launch a cascade of gunfire from other officers present. Although there is anecdotal recognition of the contagious fire phenomenon among…
Descriptors: Violence, Police, Law Enforcement, Predictor Variables
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Templer, Donald I.; Rushton, J. Philippe – Intelligence, 2011
In 50 U.S. states, we found a positive manifold across 11 measures including IQ, skin color, birth rate, infant mortality, life expectancy, HIV/AIDS, violent crime, and state income with the first principal component accounting for 33% of the variance (median factor loading = 0.34). The correlation with a composite of total violent crime was…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Crime, Income, Birth Rate
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Scott, Terri-Lynne – Journal of Correctional Education, 2010
Given the histories of employment instability of the offenders entering correctional systems, enhancing an offender's vocational skills is an important need to address prior to their reintegration into the community. The purpose of the current research was to examine offender perceptions of the value of employment and crime, obtained as part of a…
Descriptors: Employment, Attitudes, Crime, Correctional Institutions
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Kelly, John; Datta, Anusua – College Teaching Methods & Styles Journal, 2009
This study uses California crime statistics for the years 1984-2004, to determine what effect, if any, the increased sentencing standards under the three-strikes legislation in California have had in deterring crime. This study follows a new approach in differentiating between the incapacitation effect and the deterrent effect of the law.…
Descriptors: Crime, Correctional Institutions, Statistical Analysis, Violence
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Guillén-Nieto, Victoria; Vargas-Sierra, Chelo; Pardiño-Juan, Maria; Martinez-Barco, Patricio; Suárez-Cueto, Armando – International Journal of English Studies, 2008
Back in the 1990s Malcolm Coulthard announced the beginnings of an emerging discipline, "forensic linguistics", resulting from the interface of language, crime and the law. Today the courts are more than ever calling on language experts to help in certain types of cases, such as authorship identification, plagiarism, legal interpreting…
Descriptors: Crime, Applied Linguistics, Laws, Court Litigation
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Moore, Nathan T.; May, David C.; Wood, Peter B. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2008
Recent work suggests that offenders rate several alternatives as more severe than imprisonment. We build on this literature by comparing punishment exchange rates generated by criminal court judges with rates generated by offenders and their supervising officers. Findings reveal that none of the three groups rates prison as the most severe…
Descriptors: Judges, Sanctions, Correctional Institutions, Service Learning
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Lester, David – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1986
A study of the various United States as of 1940 showed that suicide rates were higher and homicide rates were lower in states where the quality of life was higher. These findings support a hypothesis derived from Henry and Short's (1954) theory of suicide and homicide. (Author)
Descriptors: Crime, Quality of Life, Statistical Data, Suicide
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Hindelang, Michael J. – Social Problems, 1979
National victimization survey data for 1972-76 are examined in order to investigate the extent to which they are in accord with Uniform Crime Report arrest data regarding the offender's sex. Results indicate that proportionate female involvement has been relatively stable except that larceny has shown a slight increase. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Crime, Criminals, Females, Males
Mandel, Jerry – AGENDA, 1979
Though hidden from view by being considered "non-existent", the meager evidence indicates that Hispanics have an unusually high arrest and incarceration rate. Hispanic background is rarely asked on the six major sources of criminal justice statistics--statistics of arrests, courts, prisoners, juvenile delinquency, crime victimization, and public…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminals, Data Collection, Delinquency
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